News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Columbus, Ohio - A violent Westside drug trafficker was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 197 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two men have been sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that led to the kidnapping and torture of an Independence, Mo., man.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jay B. Ledford, age 55, of Westlake, Texas and Las Vegas, Nevada pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and a money-laundering transaction in excess of $10,000, arising from a $550 million investment fraud scheme that operated from 2013...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing on “Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part II): Adequacy of the Federal Response."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Douglas P. Bannister, 37, Merrill, Wisconsin, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and illegally possessing a silencer.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) recently named Steve Francis as the new assistant director of the HSI-led Global Trade Investigations Division (GTID) and director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s proposal to declare a national emergency and impose tariffs on all Mexican imports...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to federal prison for making false statements on an ATF Federal Background Check Form while attempting to purchase a firearm, and for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence in the "lie-and-try" case today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on revised version of the Taxpayer First Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: One Defendant Kidnapped Four Victims. Four Broward County residents were sentenced to terms between 34 years and life in prison today, after having been convicted at trial for their participation in a string of armed robberies using firearms. One defendant was also convicted of kidnapping four victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three individuals were indicted today for trafficking in counterfeit goods through their operation of a retail store and warehouse used to sell apparel and accessories under unauthorized trademarks announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Devon Dent, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland to 14 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for racketeering and drug conspiracies related to his participation in the gang activities of the Murdaland ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - An Alabama woman found guilty by a citizen jury on 22 counts of fraud and conspiracy for her role in stealing large amounts of money from a Columbus business was sentenced to eight years in prison by a U.S. District Judge today, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Bryant McCray, 33, and Lateek Cargo, 32, both formerly of Brooklyn, New York, have been sentenced on charges of arson and conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine. The charges stem from an April 2016 arson at 400 Main...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the East Side Money Gang (ESMG) was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on racketeering, drug trafficking and firearms trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A Maumee man was indicted for attempting to coerce what he believed to be a 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Three Peruvians Plead Guilty to Overseeing Spanish-Speaking Call Centers that Extorted U.S. Consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging COURTNEY JOHN BARRETT, JR., 30, and ROBERT LEE JOURDAIN, SR., 25, with robbery. BARRETT and JOURDAIN were arrested this morning and will make an initial appearance later today before Magistrate Judge Jon T. Huseby in U.S. District Court in Bemidji, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Darrel Rich, 69, of Emmett, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for damage by fire to vehicles owned by an institution receiving federal funding and damage by fire to vehicles used in interstate commerce, U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration announced yesterday that three national parks will receive $123,572,000 in grants as part of the Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) Program.
